Our Triplet Sister Passed Away When We Were Only Eleven—On Our 21st Birthday, Mom Handed Us a Box that She Had Left Behind

of cake.

Then tell each other one good thing that happened that year.

Not the sad things.

The good things.

I want to know you lived.”

At the bottom of the letter was one last instruction.

**LOOK UNDER THE PAPER CROWN.**

Beneath it sat a small cassette tape.

Mom gasped.

“I completely forgot about this.”

We rushed to find an old cassette player.

The moment the continue reading …